Officials are still looking for survivors. A 5. 5 magnitude earthquake has struck eastern japan. At the center was estimated about 25 miles northeast of tokyo. The quake actually shook buildings in the capital city. Officials say that theyre not worried about the possibility of a tsunami. And those are the headlines, but ill be back at 11 00 p. M. Eastern, and 8 00 p. M. Pacific. Consider this is up next, and you can always find us online at www. Aljazeera. Com. Have a good weekend, and well see you at 11 00. The fda takes hefty action on obesity proposing to phase out all transfats. The move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 death as year. Consider this while lives will be saved almost 600,000 americans die every year from Heart Disease. So is this just a band aid on a far larger problem . Also the mindblowing sport that requires a lot of courage and not much gear. This is free solo climbing, scaling a mountain without a rope to us nonclimbers. The best free soloist in the
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Last night. Highway 12 and 121 in shellville remains closed for now south of sonoma, it is expected to reopen sometime today. Tomas roman shows the difficult driving conditions throughout the bay area. Reporter f tnc this is too common a sight for many here. Highway 120 with one and highway 12 floods after heavy rain then becomes a river when high tide occurs. Rain was heavy throughout the bay area in American Canyon highway 12 and red top roads streets became flooded after 5 p. M. Umbrellas were necessary. Rain poured down on mcdonald avenue slowing traffic. In Berkeley Ashby avenue exits were covered withstanding water few slowed didnt. Roads filled with people returning from spending holidays with relatives and friends cjyl chp was very busy. Im actually from the bay area so im kind of used to it but it is rough when driving on these freeways. Im ready for the sun. Reporter water was the reason for the closure on mount tam, rain not the culprit. Water main burst beneath the road. T
Strike. The unions commented on the frustration for workers because of the late notice of a potential strike. Negotiators are facing long days at the bag aning bargaining table after negotiations lasted until 5 30 in the morning of the day before and 1 00 oclock a. M. Today. It is late. Trains are running. We will keep at it. Barts only statement was comments to announce progress was being made. The unions have been vocal about what is taking place behind the closed doors saying they were encouraged by the progress. Talks are scheduled to resume at 10 00 a. M. At the caltran building in oakland. Matt, thank you. Now a look at traffic with leyla gulen. There is no traffic to speak of. We have Construction Projects from walnut creek to pleasanton hill, with a few lanes blocked off. Northbound 680 from monument to highway 242, we have construction crews out there and our drive time traffic along 680 headed in the southbound direction from walnut creek to dublin, a 14minute commute southbo
Schedule and on time. n5bx commuters in sonoma couy could use a break from the rain right now flood waters are still impassable on highways 12 and 121. Terry mcsweeney is live at the intersection. Reporter the best ive got right now is sometime today. What happens is when theres a heavy down tour as there was yesterday and a high tide, this this road closes not unusual they wish it was an unusual occurrence as you can see road closed, flooded. Pictures of what it looked like last night. Theyve been trying to fix the problem here for quite sometime, obviously, no success. Yesterday, it want hard to find rainrelated problems, American Canyon water piled up on highway 12 red top road all this going on, on Christmas Day the traffic was light yesterday, richmond on mcdonald avenue they had backup there also in berkeley a lot of places down pours and one person we talked to says hes about ready to have it wrap up. Im from the bay area so im couldnt of used to it. But it is a little rci[ when